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Weird thing enjoyer found another weird thing to enjoy

Various Frankenstein doodlings. Abt half were from reference half from imagination.

Most of these are related to the Royal Ballet version which I watched a video of the other day. So good and such a wild combination. The elegant medium and the grotesque subject matter.

I also had to draw that amazing puppet version that was made for the Hamburg state opera. lil cutie he is

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I made this comp a while ago, maybe before christmas? I've made some more sketchbook pages since but I thought I'd also post this here! Maybe I'll compile the recent ones at another time, though they're far more boring as theyre all black & white lol

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and then his boyfriend provides him with blood? :) (please say yes i need this in my life so bad)

whats the point of it all if he doesnt

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The Empty House - part 4

-Part One

-Part Two

-Part Three

Holmes is quoting Dante's Inferno - there were so many good lines to choose from, but this one had a little bitchiness to it that felt character appropriate.

This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!

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I don't think we talk about Jopson's leg injury as much as we ought to

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man I’ve been feeling so bad about my art lately,,, ahahah…. :’ but hey. looking at my art journal entries here helped a lot… omg…. thank u past self.

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chomp

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sometimes art be like. I have an arm. which I can ref. and I have myself. which I can ref. I forget KDKKDKDKD

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COMEBACK….!!!

did have a brief moment yesterday of crippling loss… I think was before yesterday not sure to check but MAN… THE GRIEF THAT HUT ME ABOUT ART… like you know when do art that’s Super Nice and Good and YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSLER!!!! AND UR LIKE IM IMPROVING(TM) and you take a week break cuz hand and needed and come back and god. You CANT EVEN!!!! And it feels so like you have regressed so badly and then you do rush art figure prac and THATS SO BAD and you can’t even look at other art people’s art cuz it makes me you sad and then tho you look at ur recent art (thank me for continuedly to move stuff toup to recent so I can see what my recent art is like) ANYWAYS…..!!!!!! like oh. oh OH. it wasn’t necessary amazing first go but I do def remember it not being this frustrating and anyways it at least made me feel better. come today and hey you know what! I felt like art mood! but it wasn’t until I was hit with hey. oh my gosh. DRAW TURTLES AND MY GUY THAT AU?? OJAY!!!! and I was gonna. but then I saw my figure thing and was like what if. warm first cuz you know.

and you know!!!!! I really should do this warm up!!!! It felt much better than the other figure try.

I feel like. doing figure parc after coming out of trying to do a. drawing and it Not Going well and I feel like then I approach my figure parc as well… “seeing that im stilll good at art” but I think it’s more should be relearning and practising and learning etc and picking stuff up again since THATS NOTMAL! And past me wouldn’t be able to pick this up fast as I am now!!!! And ahahah yeah side views back spine it seems is like Being A Point I really need to observe and learn now cuz MY GOSH I need to. Also because MY GOSH I always draw so many side profiles and I need to save my self this grief……!!!!!

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Art tutorials by Disney artists Griz and Norm Lemay

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They have a regular customer now☺️...

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Peter and MJ sharing sleepy smiles and cuddles on the plane ride home from London <3

From this deleted scene

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Tutorial on drawing characters/OCs who have some sort of facial paralysis. It doesn't cover all possible variants because I was using mirror as my main reference lawl

Keep in mind that this is an introductory drawing tutorial and has some generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People 👍

Consider supporting me on ko-fi if you find this to be helpful.

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The big post of things about hands!!! I don’t consider myself qualified to teach art at this point in my life, but I don’t see any harm in sharing observations I have made. In learning to draw hands over the past few months I’ve tried to take a lot of notes, with the end goal of hopefully creating a video tutorial one day. I personally learn better from videos than written or illustrated instructions, but I’ve never found any one video that really demystifies drawing hands. I believe that in order to tackle such a difficult subject it is important to understand what makes it difficult, and this is not often addressed. If you understand the problems you can systematically solve them…

Drawing the hand is almost like drawing a whole person. Similar number of “major masses” and a big range of motion.

Because the hand is so versatile, it’s hard to pick a pose when practicing. Most individual body parts are drawn from different angles, whereas the hand must be drawn from different angles and in different poses.

Hands have a lot of moving parts and from any given angle many of these will be partially or wholly obscured by other parts. Drawing “through the form” results in confusing construction lines that are difficult to interpret.

Hands are expressive and give big clues as to what a character is doing. Odd or unnatural hand poses detract heavily from your overall piece. Most people avoid drawing hands because of this.

The thumb flexes along a different plane than the four fingers and sits on its own deviant metacarpal. Drawing the hand in perspective is hard enough, but adding the thumb in relation to the rest of the hand at a convincing angle? Forget about it!

Hands are typically simplified into box and cylinder forms, but almost every part of the hand is a combination of angles and curves. No one simplified form really describes these parts.

Hands interact with other objects, like all the time. They’re tricky enough to draw on their own… this isn’t helping anyone.

Hands have a lot of bony landmarks, veins, and tendons, all visible at the surface level. These are obstacles when trying to render them realistically.

Hands are asymmetrical from every angle. Every part, every time.

I think that about covers the major issues we face when trying to draw hands. Now here are some observations and facts that you can use to fight back!

The width of the first three fingers (index, middle and ring) is the same as the width of the wrist. The pinky and thumb both emanate from the parts of the palm that overhang this line.

The palm of the hand is more of a pentagon than a rectangle (Thanks, Jim Lee!).

The length of the middle finger is approximately the same as the length and width of the palm.

The length of the phalanxes (finger bones in this case) diminishes in size as they get further from the palm. The second (middle) phalanx is 2/3 the length of the first (proximal), and the third (distal) is 2/3 the length of the second. You don’t really notice this since the first knuckle is “inside” the palm and we tend to think of the fingers as starting at the “finger crotch”.

The thumb has no middle phalanx, only a proximal and a distal one.

The thumb is rotated 90 degrees from the angle of the four fingers. So the fingernails point “up” and the thumbnail points “to the side”. This obviously changes depending on the pose, but the thumbnail never really points “up” with the other fingernails unless it is bent backwards, as in poses when all five fingers are pressed against a flat surface. It never really points “down” unless the hand is clamping or pinching… or operating a sock puppet.

The thumb has to sit lower than the palm so that it can flex underneath the hand. The first knuckle of the thumb is almost as far below the index finger as the pinky is far away from the index finger.

The “webbing” of the thumb connects exactly half way up the palm.

Hands are asymmetrical from every angle. Every part, every time.

That is all the knowledge I have so far, and now you have it too! I don’t think any tutorial, video or otherwise, can ever teach you as much as the thousand observations you will make from drawing a thousand hands. There is no substitute for practice. So practice by looking at your hand from the normal vantage point, and from a mirror. Practice from 3D reference like the Handy Art Tool. Practice by copying other artists and animators whose hands appeal to you. Most of all, practice from imagination. PRACTICE! Below is every reference that I can remember that I’ve personally used while practicing hands:

http://www.handyarttool.com/

http://youtu.be/BAQb-5VKxmg

http://nk-chan.deviantart.com/art/mini-hand-tutorial-68320552

http://kibbitzer.deviantart.com/art/Hands-Reference-321600866

http://kibbitzer.deviantart.com/art/Hands-Reference-2-322546252

http://kibbitzer.deviantart.com/art/Hands-Reference-3-330102275

http://kibbitzer.deviantart.com/art/Hands-reference-4-428109721

http://characterdesignnotes.blogspot.com/2010/09/hand-reference.html

http://characterdesignnotes.blogspot.com/2010/09/hand-reference-part-two.html

http://characterdesignnotes.blogspot.com/2010/11/hand-reference-part-three.html

Do me a favor and share this around, will you? We could all use more light shed on this subject. -Aaron

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i actually really love drawing hands and only recently have I enjoyed it haha

I’m still not very good at it nor do I understand a single thing about anatomy but here’s some small tips I hope help!!!

tbh ive been waiting for someone to ask for a hand tutorial